Guanzhong.

Jingshi, Daxing.

Li Yuanlong entered the sea, and the tiger entered the mountains and forests.

Taking advantage of the melee between Dou Jiande, Li Mi, and Wang Shichong in the Central Plains, he finally found an opportunity to flee all the way west to take his life, and also escaped into Guanzhong.

When the soldiers entered the customs, for Xiaoguo Jun, they were naturally very happy, and finally returned to their hometown, and Li Yuan, who took them back to Beijing, was also very supportive.

At this time, Guanzhong was empty, and the remaining guard Xuanwei Wensheng took a small number of soldiers and horses in Xijing and was going to Luoyang to attack Li Mi. Yang Guang had not been killed when Wei Wensheng sent his troops, he was ordered by the emperor to go out of Beijing to Luoyang to beg for thieves, who knew that the emperor was killed after he came out.

Then Wang Shichong embraced a son of heaven, and Li Yuan embraced a son of heaven.

Wei Wensheng was of course supposed to support the Son of Heaven in Guanzhong, but he led his troops in Luoyang at this time, and the grain and grass in the army were all supplied by Wang Shichong, and many of his generals were also bought by Wang Shichong, and at that time, Li Yuan and others were blocked in Pengcheng, and it was difficult to return to Beijing.

But in this way, when Li Yuan entered the customs, Wei Wensheng was designated as a rebel and could not return to the customs.

"Wei Xuan, it's better not to return to Beijing."

Li Yuan said to his three sons, "If he comes back, it will still be a trouble." ”

After all, Wei Wensheng is not alone, he has tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, not to mention that he has stayed in Xijing for several years before, and there is a set of left-behind teams here, and his grasp of this place is stronger than Li Yuan.

Now Li Yuan is willing to let him come back?

After taking the opportunity to list Wei Xuan as a rebel, Li Yuan acted quickly.

As soon as he entered Guanzhong, Li Yuan held an important meeting with his henchmen.

At this meeting, Li Yuan decided to divide all the troops and horses into three armies, which were then divided into left and right wings.

At the same time, he also decided to set up the General's Mansion and open the Mansion to place his subordinates, with Li Yuan as the general.

He was originally one of the six auxiliary ministers, and he was also the prime minister, but Li Yuan now wants to call himself a general, which is undoubtedly to get rid of the rest of the auxiliary prime ministers.

Wang Shichong is a traitor, so he was naturally removed from the list of auxiliary ministers, Chen Ling stayed in Jianghuai and came to protect his son from illness and died in Pengcheng, Yang Yichen and Xiao Yu were in Hedong, so in fact, he was the only one in Beijing who was the auxiliary minister.

But Li Yuan was not satisfied, but wanted to set up another general's mansion, which was equivalent to Luo Cheng's marshal's mansion, that is, to transfer the center of the Guanzhong court to his general's mansion.

so that he may be in full power.

After the meeting.

Li Yuan met with the Son of Heaven and the regent Empress Dowager Xiao and presented a list.

Xiao took it.

I saw a list of officials written on it.

Li Yuan entered the Tang Dynasty, increased the general, and opened the mansion.

Li Jiancheng became the prince of Longyou County, the governor of the left army, and the three armies on the left were under his command.

Li Shimin was the duke of Dunhuang County, the governor of the right leading army, and the right three armies were under his command.

Liu Wenjing is Sima, Chai Shao is Changshi, Tang Jian, Wen Daya, Wen Dayou are brothers, and so on.

Shen Guang, a meritorious hero, was given the post of Jiannan pacification envoy and sent to pacify Jiannan and Yunnan, which was obviously to seize Shen Guang's military power and squeeze him out of the center.

Li Yuan also specially asked his son Li Yuanji to be the prince of Nanyang County, and let him lead an army to guard Wuguan. This was the route they had taken when they entered the customs, and now he had sent this son to guard the town.

A long list is full of Li Yuan's people.

The Xiaoguo army that came back from Jiangnan, as well as some soldiers and horses that were originally left behind in the central government, totaled about 120,000 people, and Li Yuan divided them into six armies, but they were all handed over to his son to command.

The military masters of the six armies below are basically Li Yuan's people.

Not to mention the establishment of his Great General's Mansion, the intention is very obvious.

But after the Empress Dowager Xiao saw it, she only told Li Yuan about military affairs through the screen, and she was tired of King Tang. In the face of Li Yuan's transgression, Xiao Shi did not get angry, nor did she blame, let alone object, she had actually expected this day a long time ago.

At the beginning, she had proposed to go to Liaodong, but it can be seen that she no longer had any hope for the Sui Dynasty, and now Li Yuan is like this, which has long been expected.

Li Yuan couldn't imagine that Empress Dowager Xiao would be so cooperative.

got the edict of the regent Empress Dowager, so he immediately began to seize power in an all-round way.

On the one hand, Li Yuan sent his sons, sons-in-law, brothers, sons and nephews of the family to lead the troops and horses, and at the same time, he also rewarded the noble officials in Guanzhong and the soldiers of Xiaoguo.

The most ruthless thing Li Yuan did was to award all the 120,000 generals in the Guanzhong.

Conferring honors to 120,000 people at a time is simply breaking through the sky.

In addition to awarding medals to soldiers, Li Yuan immediately conferred medals on all those over the age of 60 in Guanzhong, and on those over 70 years old.

As for the original officials, all of them have been promoted by one rank.

As for the original nobles, Li Yuan said quite generously that they could all be restored to the titles of three years ago. The title system was changed in the third year of the Great Cause, leaving only the princes and marquis of the third class, and the titles of many nobles were removed at that time.

Now Li Yuan generously said that the boys below Hou have all recovered. In addition, the county and county offices that had been removed before were also restored. And for some of those who supported him Li Yuan, he even conferred knighthood on them.

Some of the old nobles and officials in Daxing City were also a little frightened when they saw this situation.

"The conferral of official knighthoods should not be too indiscriminate, and the country's famous weapons should not be easily indiscriminately sealed."

But Li Yuan ignored these exhortations at all, and when he talked with his son and son-in-law, he showed his true attitude, "At the beginning, Yang Guang was too stingy with rewards, so everyone was reluctant to follow him, and now when our Li family starts a business, we can't be stingy with titles and rewards." The key at the moment is to disturb people's hearts and minds first, and seize the world first, as for the rest, that can be said in the future. ”

Li Yuan patted Li Jiancheng's shoulder, "If my Li clan really wins the world in the future, even if I am old and unable to deal with these, but in the future, when the time is ripe, you can also reduce the title and reduce the seal." ”

Although Li Yuan is making nonsense, I have to say that his actions have attracted the support of countless noble officials and soldiers, after all, who is not willing to be promoted to a knighthood.

And Li Yuan is also generous to the Yang family, after entering the customs, he took out a lot of money and silk in the Xijing Mansion treasury to reward those soldiers, and for a while everyone was promoted and awarded, and here and there were knights and rewards, which one is not happy?

For a time, the prestige of the general Li Yuan soared, and the generals of Guanzhong only recognized Li Yuan but not the son of the Yang family.

"Father, now we only occupy a corner of Guanzhong, Shuofang has Liang Shidu, Hetao has Yun Dingxing, Longyou has Zhuqiang rebellion, Tuyuhun also took the opportunity to rebel in Fuguo, and Jingxiang has Xiao Milling, Jiannan Yunnan and other places are also isolated from me, not to mention Wang Shichong Li Mi in the Central Plains, Luo Cheng in Liaodong, Shandong, Dou Jiande in Hebei, Luo Siye in Dingxiang, Liu Wuzhou in Mayi, father, although we return to Guanzhong in the west, the situation is still critical."

Li Shimin said to Li Yuan, "The child has several strategies to alleviate this unfavorable situation. ”

"Tell me about it."